Democrat Polling Primary Challenge to Larson.

Is 20 years too long? Is he leftwing enough? A Democrat is using the services of Public Policy Polling to test a challenge to popular First District U.S. Representative John B. Larson (D-East Hartford).

Deep into the poll, the inquiries got to the point. Would you be likely to support a challenger to Larson if it came from a woman with 16 years in public service in two congressional office, is a breast cancer survivor, and comes from a military family? Would you? Those were some of the questions, reports a Democrat who was polled and shared details with Daily Ructions.

Insiders are saying that describes the Director of the Women’s Leadership Center at the University of Saint Joseph, Shannon Kula.

Kula would probably need to collect signatures to get on the primary ballot as winning 15% of the convention delegates in May would be a reach.

Larson was first elected to the House in 1998 after defeating West Hartford Democrat Miles Rapoport in a hard-fought primary. Larson went on to make short work of Republican and Rowland favorite Kevin O’Connor that fall. He has been re-elected without incident nine times.